<h2>Problem 99</h2>
<div style="color:#666;font-size:80%;">01 July 2005</div><br />
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<p>Comparing two numbers written in index form like 2<img src="" style="display:none;" alt="^(" /><sup>11</sup><img src="" style="display:none;" alt=")" /> and 3<img src="" style="display:none;" alt="^(" /><sup>7</sup><img src="" style="display:none;" alt=")" /> is not difficult, as any calculator would confirm that 2<img src="" style="display:none;" alt="^(" /><sup>11</sup><img src="" style="display:none;" alt=")" /> = 2048 <img src='images/symbol_lt.gif' width='10' height='10' alt='&lt;' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' /> 3<img src="" style="display:none;" alt="^(" /><sup>7</sup><img src="" style="display:none;" alt=")" /> = 2187.</p>
<p>However, confirming that 632382<img src="" style="display:none;" alt="^(" /><sup>518061</sup><img src="" style="display:none;" alt=")" /> <img src='images/symbol_gt.gif' width='10' height='10' alt='&gt;' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' /> 519432<img src="" style="display:none;" alt="^(" /><sup>525806</sup><img src="" style="display:none;" alt=")" /> would be much more difficult, as both numbers contain over three million digits.</p>
<p>Using <a href='project/base_exp.txt'>base_exp.txt</a> (right click and 'Save Link/Target As...'), a 22K text file containing one thousand lines with a base/exponent pair on each line, determine which line number has the greatest numerical value.</p>
<p class='info'>NOTE: The first two lines in the file represent the numbers in the example given above.</p>

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